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    SubjectRe: The new X-Kernel !
    >  > Boots up with X, that means.
    >
    >I've never understood why people want X, StarOffice (OpenOffice) etc to be
    >moved into kernel space :) IMHO it's strictly user space issue. You can
    >start X or gdm/xdm/kdm from a boot script and so on. No kernel modification
    >is needed for this.

    Probably because they don't know the difference between kernel and
    user space. Kinda understandable when you come from a Mac or Windows
    background, where (in the former) there is no distinction or (in the
    latter) it's so blurred as to make little difference.

    And if they *do* understand it, from a dispassionate point of view,
    it does seem to make sense to put graphics drivers in the kernel -
    they're implemented as "device drivers" in every other desktop OS.
    Except MacOS X, where's it's an application layer like glibc, but
    nobody understand OS X yet beyond the hardest of developers.

    But they don't realise that XFree86 has an *enormous* amount of
    developer time behind it, which would need to be duplicated to make
    it work in kernel space with full backwards compatibility. Oh, and
    did I mention this would all be for one platform - XFree86 is
    designed to run on many! It would also bloat the kernel tremendously.

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